University News Archive

  • Architecture Assistant Professor Marshall Brown to Present at MCA’s “Visionary Cities” Symposium

    College of Architecture Assistant Professor Marshall Brown will present at the Museum of Contemporary Art's Visionary Cities symposium on September 22. Visionary Cities is a conference on the state of visionary urbanism featuring noted architects, theorists, and scholars, who debate how to engage the city in the age of extreme urbanization. Tickets are available online.

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  • IIT Real-Time Communications Conference and Expo

    IIT Real-Time Communications Conference and Expo

    The IIT Real-Time Communications Conference and Expo will take place on September 10-12, 2012 in Hermann Hall. This is an opportunity to hear and speak with leaders in the field of Real-Time Communications, including Henning Schulzrinne, the CTO of the FCC, Bernard Aboba, Principal Architect for Microsoft, Harald Alvestrand and Serge Lachapelle, leaders of WebRTC work for Google, and over 50 more speakers and panelists from Mozilla, RIM, NEC, AT&T Labs, AT&T, Verizon and more.

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  • NSF Director Subra Suresh to Present the 2012 Darsh T. Wasan Lecture

    A distinguished engineer and professor, Subra Suresh was nominated by President Barack Obama in 2010, and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate, to serve as the director of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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  • Celebrate Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month at IIT

    Celebrate Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month at IIT

    September is Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month! The national theme this year is “Diversity United, Building America's Future Today.” We hope that you will join IIT in supporting this movement on campus.

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  • Successful Summer for Computer Science Group

    Successful Summer for Computer Science Group

    Xian-He Sun, chair and professor of the Department of Computer Science, was an invited keynote speaker at two conferences recently. Additionally over the summer, Sun and his team were awarded a three-year collaboration grant for $842,298 from the National Science Foundation for “Decoupled Execution Paradigm for Data-Intensive High-End Computing.”

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  • Celebrate Sustainability Week!

    Celebrate Sustainability Week!

    Come outside and enjoy Sustainability Week! There will be a variety of events, including a beach clean-up, trips to farmer's markets, an opening party for the community garden, and tours of a water reclamation facility!

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  • IIT Chicago-Kent to Host the 2012 Tournament Of Champions

    IIT Chicago-Kent to Host the 2012 Tournament Of Champions

    IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law will host the 34th annual Tournament of Champions October 24 to 27. The tournament will be held at the Circuit Court of Cook County in the Richard J. Daley Center and in IIT Chicago-Kent’s Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Courtroom. Established in 1989, the Tournament of Champions is one of the most prestigious law school trial competitions in the country.

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  • GET FIVE Goes Digital!

    IIT's GET FIVE program has gone digital with QBOT! Download the QBOT app and you can use your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch or Android phone as your GET FIVE Card. Spend $5 in TechCash, Cash or Credit and get a Loyalty Scan with QBOT instead of punching a GET FIVE card. After 8 Loyalty Scans, you get $5.00 toward your next purchase.

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  • Busy Summer for MSED Educators

    Busy Summer for MSED Educators

    Norman Lederman, distinguished professor of mathematics and science education, and Judith Lederman, associate professor of mathematics and science education and director of teacher education, have had quite a busy summer.

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  • Save Time and Money with Anytime Blox in The Commons

    Purchase Anytime Blox for an all-you-care-to-eat meals at a discount in The Commons. Each all-you-care-to-eat meal is only $8.50 with the Anytime Blox Meal Plan. Available in blocks of 10, 25 or 50 meals. Perfect for commuters, Gunsaulus Hall residents, sorority and fraternity members, faculty, and staff!

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